Our Current Research

Daniel’s PhD project aims to improve treatment of a rare and incurable form of blood cancer call follicular lymphoma by testing a promising new drug. Not only does he hope that these treatments will be more effective, but that patients will suffer from less treatment-associated side effects.

The overall aim is to improve health and wellbeing for women cancer survivors at all stages of their cancer journey, by effectively managing menopausal symptoms, sexual dysfunction, mood and sleep disturbance.

Martin Brennan’s research hopes to help women avoid the devastating loss of fertility that often comes with treatment for endometrial cancer.

Roisin will develop and coordinate a multi-disciplinary nurse-led survivorship clinic and symptom management pathway which integrates hospital and community services.

Adele has started her PhD research in ovarian cancer, titled, 'Investigating the heterogeneic biology of ovarian cancer metastases by high-resolution imaging to inform novel combination therapies'.

Professor Aoife Lowery will be leading the extension of the Women’s Health Initiative to Galway, where they will not only assist in the recruitment of UCC’s LYSA clinical trial, but also carry out a study investigating cardiotoxicity in breast cancer patients, facilitated by the buy-out time from the Clinician Research Leadership Award.

Dr Potter is carrying out research into using less extensive surgery for melanoma patients, resulting in less scarring and postoperative pain, as well as faster recovery and hopefully the same survival outcomes.

Graeme’s research is focused on relapsed multiple myeloma, looking firstly to understand why existing treatments aren’t always effective, identifying new targets, and testing new drug combinations to target them, translating into improved survival and QOL for patients.

This research project is a mixed methods study to evaluate the effectiveness of ultrasound for peripheral intravenous cannulation in oncology patients.

Jennifer’s project is titled, “The development, implementation and evaluation of a health behaviour change intervention for adolescents who have completed active cancer treatment”

This project will develop and online tool to assist women with a BRCA+ gene mutation to make decisions about their care.

Chloe’s research project is titled, “ ENHANCE- EnhaNcing Health literAcy amoNg Cancer caregivErs”. The aim of this research is to develop and pilot test an intervention for cancer caregivers designed to increase their health literacy levels.

Sophie’s research project will aim at promoting HPV cervical screening by co-designing an educational intervention to overcome barriers and promote screening uptake in under-represented groups.